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This book explores business and governance solutions for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all UN member states in 2015. It features the proceedings of the 5th International Scientific Conference on Sustainable Development...

Made in China 2025 - Die große Initiative - Von der "Werkbank der Welt" zur InnovationsnationDas Buch "Made in China 2025 - Die große Initiative - Von der "Werkbank der Welt" zur Innovationsnation" bietet einen fundierten Einblick in Chinas Wandel von...

This reference work showcases the power of a multidisciplinary approach in providing a comprehensive view of the complex subject of philanthropy. It identifies areas for improvement and discusses the relationships between governance in philanthropic...

This edited collection examines the historical role of business actors in climate and environmental governance since the 1970s. Through a compilation of recent, evidence-based historical research, it unveils the origins of contemporary challenges in...

Italian Banking and Financial Law provides a thorough overview of the banking sector in Italy, offering historical perspectives, insight into current developments and suggestions for future evolution.

Risk is the single most prevalent and enduring factor that influences every individual, organization, and society. People often seek protection from negative risk events, but also seek to take advantage of opportunities arising from positive risk events...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a major development strategy launched by the Chinese government with the goal of fostering economic cooperation among countries along the proposed routes. The BRI marks a new era in which multinational enterprises...

In modern countries, a company is commonly categorized as either public or privately-held, depending on whether securities are publicly traded on the open market, into a government-owned company or private company depending on government ownership, or a...

Drawing back on the ever-evolving stakeholder management theory, this book responds to calls for more empirical research into the managerial sense making of the stakeholder concept. The book explores how managers make sense of stakeholder management,...

This book provides empirical insights into the relationship between capital and ownership structure of Indian manufacturing companies and their financial performance.

The book introduces a theory of ensemble storytelling to explain how the CIW has been able to animate workers, fight slavery, influence multinational corporations, and expand the Fair Food Program.

This book presents a comprehensive account of the intricacies related to compensation and reward management in Indian organizations - a vital strategic feature of HR management.

Strategy and Leadership as Service is a practical, and increasingly popular, alternative vision of the future of work. The framework provides businesses with access to the complete range of functional, emotional, and collective intelligence at the...

This book is a leadership guide to the effective implementation of the ISO 45001:2018 standard. It takes the high-level leadership and top management principles put forward in ISO 45001 and develops them into a comprehensive discourse on how, at the very...

Since the mid-1980s two crises have overtaken governance of the American corporation - the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of investor trust in financial management in the late 1990s. This book proposes specific changes in conduct to...

Business Efficiency and Ethics presents both the theory of business efficiency and ethics, and a wealth of case studies based on practical experience. This unique perspective offers a framework for identifying this behaviour and reestablishing...

The role of the family in business has an influence on the development of society that is partially mediated through corporate citizenship. This book pulls together current thinking from several diverse research fields that intersect with family business...

It's the Age of Agile, but many are now asking why they aren't getting the promised results.You can spend millions training teams in agile approaches, but without changes to the structuring governance of broader management, success is elusive because the...

Deploying releases into production is fraught with difficultyWith so many interested constituencies, processes can go wrong in more ways than they can go right. The problems start when requirements are gathered and, if unmanaged, can flow unchecked...

The Norwegian Gender Balance Law: A Reform that Failed? reviews the two promises of Gender Balance Law – the promise of greater gender equality in leadership positions in private companies and the promise of improved firm performance. This review...

This publication explores lessons from Sri Lanka's experience of reforming electricity distribution through the Lanka Electricity Company, a distribution utility created in 1983.It discusses the problems the company set out to resolve, its achievements,...

This publication sets out considerations for policymakers embarking on planning and implementing a digital transformation of tax administration.Digitalization can play a key role in helping tax authorities lower compliance and administrative costs,...

Throughout recent decades, corporate and financial social responsibility has steadily become recognized worldwide in the wake of globalization and political trends. These factors, as well as the current state of the world economy, have leveraged a demand...

In modern society, it has become increasingly important to consumers that their products be environmentally safe. Green marketing is the most efficient way for corporations to convey that their merchandise is environmentally ethical, which in turn...

As global business competition continues to accelerate, it is imperative that managers and executives examine all facets of an organization so that it remains successful. Often dynamics such as espionage, diplomacy, and geopolitical atmosphere have a...

In the modern era, businesses have developed a complex relationship with the society surrounding them. While the effects of business activity are clearly seen, their direct impact varies from country to country. Comparative Perspectives on Global...

Businesses fail - some spectacularly and suddenly, others more gradually over time. In some companies business decline can be turned around or at least delayed. In many others there is no option other than business closure. Over the past twenty years the...

Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) and other private governance instruments (e.g., Fair Trade, Forest Stewardship Council, Fair Wear Foundation, GLOBALGAP) are increasingly regulating global production processes and economic activities. VSS verify...

75% of companies without a business continuity plan fail within three years.Disruptive incidents can affect any organisation and occur at any moment. ICT outages, cyber attacks, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, pandemics, supply chain failures and...

This report explains how the quality of infrastructure investments in developing Asia can be enhanced and why this is vital for the region's sustainable recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.It emphasizes the need to balance urgent...

This publication provides guidance to support efforts to reform state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in developing Asia.Under its Strategy 2030, ADB is committed to SOE reform in its developing member countries (DMCs). The publication reviews the significance...

This qualitative study evaluated the steps necessary for a non-profit organization to incentivize private investment in its non-profit initiatives. The research questions for this study examined the knowledge, motivation and organizational factors that...

A comprehensive and holistic overview of Corporate Governance developed by sourcing and referencing from institutions and authors in the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK), the United States of America (USA), Asia, among others.Content on...

This book will help Chairs to form a strong team, build a resilient relationship with the CEO, assess how to use their considerable power, and when to show self-restraint.Board members often struggle to identify their true role, caught between the Chair...

Protecting the Brand, Volume I: Counterfeiting and Grey Markets is a handbook for law practitioners as well as business executives.It is a unique perspective of best practices in addressing issues around counterfeiting and grey markets - from a legal as...

Esta guía única escrita para profesionales y organizaciones sin fines de lucro, ofrece una introducción básica sobre lo que es una organización sin fines de lucro: cómo se forma, opciones para la estructura...

There is a rising demand for a reform of capitalism in the wake of increased income and wealth inequalities, the effects of climate change and environmental and industrial disasters, the growth of global trade, the internationalization of cultures, and...

This book presents the changing face of social responsibility, showing how it has grown to encompass governance, becoming a vital part of various aspects of human endeavor. From businesses to politics to justice systems, Corporate Social Responsibility...

This book breaks the boundaries of the single enterprise, proposing the symbiotic business model, and discussing business model design engineering as well as other new concepts, methods and ideas. Business models are not only dependent on business...

This book explores the linkages between the evolution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financing and governance in Japan since the late 2000s. Since the 1990s, increasing economic and financial globalization has steadily eroded the...

This book presents case studies of South Asian companies that have strategic business implications, highlighting the complex interplay of business and social dynamics in South Asia. This region is a wide agglomeration of very different countries that...

This book examines various aspects of changes to business behavior through the lenses of the "twin pillars" of sustainability - responsibility and governance. It discusses whether the focus of corporate social responsibility has changed so much that we...